Acosta to Trump: Who dropped the ball on pandemic preparation?

CNN's Jim Acosta asks President Donald Trump who in his administration dropped the ball on preparing for a possible pandemic, citing the lack of masks and other medical equipment. #CNN #News

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    1. @Church Planting Catalyst i think any reporter from CNN or fox can be a better candidate than orange head at this moment, cause they have more common sense than him,whenever after they ask questions they start smiling waiting for that stupid answer.

    2. @David McAuley our Chinese Americans need to sue Drumpf for his hateful and false slander. He is even uglier on the inside than he is on the outside. A truly abhorrent, little, weak and painted man, built like humpty dumpty.

    3. @Ray K “What if?”‘s are useless in the midst of a crisis. Right now there is a crisis and we have no one in charge except the medical experts whose lives are being threatened by Drumpf’s ignorant base.

    4. dannywang wang thankful for YouTube. Sure media hates it because they keep getting caught by showing what they said which then gets blown due to not being true. Glad your on YouTube. Watch live interviews instead of chopped and edited. Will help

  1. Limited vocabulary meaning Limited Education… He runs when he’s wrong and pass it off to someone who’s actually educated in their field.

    1. @efc toffee It would be much better if he run off the damn podium, because majority of what he said half the time it makes no sense, all he does is keep repeating himself like some old scratch record from the sixties..

    2. efc toffee Why are we so blind to the true intention of this man, even his own mother doubted his capability! But one thing I’m sure he might not be book smart, but he surely can dance and get away with murder. Like The dictator TRUJILLO he has has a gift to manipulate the masses. He knows what makes them tick.

    3. @Congressman Jim Jordan With a record like yours as athletic director and a mouth like yours, you are beyond belief

    4. @Congressman Jim Jordan Trump was gifted his diploma, his IQ score and his daddy’s money like he was gifted his bone spurs by his doctor. Please Jim you should be smarter than that to get sucked into fraudulent test results and fraudulent academic records. Oh wait, you want to defend him because you also had the opportunity to get fraudulent puffed up BS on your vitae as well, right? Of course we all know you never told a lie either. That’s a joke.

    1. You’re too damn busy calling guys “boy” to even have enough common sense to know what I meant.

    1. @Marlowe Dugger fact is..you can’t handle the truth. This country needs an enima. Likr atchie bunker place bar….no shirt no shoes no democrats lol…stay divided. ..enjoy seeing the real America now.

  2. Hmmm. What to say next…. I know, what was that 3 syllable word I just said. Say that 3 or 4 more times. Then blame Obama…..

  3. Makes me want to throw up. People need to start calling him out more aggressively. “But, but, you said” doesn’t cut it.

    1. @Eric Mitchell people often forget that even being a president comes with a certain level of arrogance, just look at the last 4 president’s. I agree that the parties don’t agree on many things however there are common interests but the problem is not one of the president’s making. The further left the Democrats go the more that they push people to join the walk away movement.

    2. @Just Say’n https://youtu.be/cEzZCpyBnVE see for yourself Tim Poole is not conservative and yet they paint him as such when he voted for Obama and has stated that Obama was not as left leaning as him and yet he calls it as he sees it.

    3. @Eric Mitchell Trump is not a racist but you sound like one. “Tolerant left” is an oxymoron. You are consuming garbage media. Go see what smart people like Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Colion Noir, Dr. Ben Carson etc have to say about Trump. He has done more for black communities in 3 years than Obama ever did. Obama wrapped the black communities in welfare slavery, Trump created Opportunity Zones and put thousands of jobs in those communities. Sorry, you are just wrong.

    1. @C D you’re so stupid. the job of the press is to fact-check our elected officials. maybe he should try telling the truth once in a while.. you know, just for a change of pace!

    2. @vman armand Those people aren’t telling you the truth, they’re feeding you their anti-American communist propaganda. And you’re just dumb enough to believe it, but not smart enough to question it.

  4. Trump just needs to be locked in his room and put on timeout for the next 6 months while the adults figure out how clean up his spilt milk.

    1. @Theresa Freeman He is?? He wanted to fill churches by Easter. He called this no worse than the common flu. You have states with no support, no plan, people walking around like this is a hoax perpetrated by the Dems. Theresa, what has this man done but sit on the sidelines as this has unfolded. Because of his early inaction, USA stands to lose more lives than WW1 all of which could have been prevented. We knew about this virus in December. Count the months. 4… And only now is he reacting. The absurdity of what you think is a great job is the reason American is worse than what it has ever been

    2. ​@Patrick Reardon Actually some of us knew about this virus in November. And Trump actually started taking action in January when he set up a task force on it and started to restrict flights from China. Which, btw, the MSM and the dems claimed he was overreacting and being a racist, and trying to deflect from the bogus impeachment trail the dems were staging at the time. There’s article after article that came out of the MSM that were telling everyone that the common flu was more dangerous than CV-19. We have the mayor of NYC and other democratic city leaders telling everyone not to worry, and to go about their lives like normal in early February. We’ve got Pelosi doing the exact same thing telling everyone to go to Chinatown.

      As hard as it is for far leftists to understand we are a union of states. Most of the problems in these states are the result of the state leaders being unprepared, not the fed. That doesn’t absolve the fed of everything. Trump should have acted sooner. But it’s the states fault for not being more prepared for the most part. Cuomo had a report on his desk in 2015, by the NYC department of health, that told him he was almost 16,000 ventilators short of what he would need if something like this happened in NYC. Between then and early March of this year how many did he buy? None.

      Point being, a lot of people dropped the ball here. Trump did, as well as previous administrations, most noticeably the Bush Jr. one, who after 9/11 should have put many things in place for something like this. And that applies to those who were in congress at the time(s). The MSM has dropped the ball as well, not taking this as seriously as they should have early on, barely reporting on it back in November, December, January, as well as acting like propagandists, (And that means all of them, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc.), instead of journalists. And, IMO, the ones most to blame, the state leaders, like Cuomo, who never prepare for things like this, and then when it happens always have their hand out to the feds, who are supposed to be the back up for the states when things like this happen, not the go to guys.

    3. @Ace of Knaves appreciate your well worded response and pov. I also appreciate that it’s much more complicated and the outcome can’t be reduced to a few characters or a few missteps. I am not an American, but watching this unfolded from the north and hearing misinformation and false claims is frustrating because the magnitude of this is not being appreciated and the actions are truly just half measures. Meanwhile people are dying in droves. To hear someone rant about Trump makes my blood boil. I am a conservative. This should not be partisan and blind beliefs and baseless confidence is where I draw the line.

  5. the who makes a report on pandemic threat every year and has done so for 10 years to all countries

  6. READ AND WATCH THIS    George W. Bush in 2005: ‘If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare’

    1. First case was in November, or at least the alert of a new flu virus was showing up but China was attempting to hide it (which they did rather well but it was known something was up and obviously the USA and other global leaders knew, we just didnt know that it’d be worse than the previous flus/virus outbreaks).

  7. “I always knew” (I did nothing)
    We’ve been prepared for years (And we’re still hopelessly disorganized) It was Obama’s fault. (soon to be Dr. Fauci’s)

    1. Even with all the spending we do, Obama didn’t restock the masks and respirators after H1N1, Kiwihame. His administration fucked up.

  8. “The problems we have are due to the previous administration, we havent had enough time to fix it, but the good economy was all because of me”.

  9. Reporter: If we are preparing for a pandemic, why is it that we don’t have enough masks, why is it that we don’t have enough medical equipments in this country?.

    Trump: The previous administration gave us very little ammunitions for the millitary, shelves are empty, shelves are empty.

    Reporter: But you had time to restock the shelves.

    Trump: You should speak with the previous administration, jim.

    Reporter: But you’ve been in office for almost 4 years.

    Trump: The military shelves were also empty, we have no ammunition, literally.

    Can someone explain to me why is he talking about military ammunition and avoiding the question which was about medical equipments? .. I give up on trying to figure this guy on my own.

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